TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on May 5, 2022

Gov. Bill Lee made two cabinet appointments today, the Nashville Post reports. Deputy Governor and Department of Finance and Administration Commissioner Butch Eley will now head up the Department of Transportation. He’ll keep his deputy governor role as well as his office in the Capitol. Eley will take over for Clay Bright, who left the department to oversee the new Megasite Authority of West Tennessee. Jim Bryson will succeed Eley at the Department of Finance and Administration. Bryson is currently the deputy commissioner of the Bureau of Parks and Conversation at the Department of Environment and Conversation. He served one term as a state senator and was a candidate for governor in 2006.